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Specific Concerns

March 16 2013

We, Armenians, like to discuss global issues from `What will be the
end of this?’ series. During those abstract discussions the terms
`regime’ and `the people’ – God knows, what they mean – must be
present. Unfortunately, I cannot rise to that level of abstraction,
and that is why I am concerned about specific persons and specific
issues. I don’t want professors to be dismissed for expressing their
political positions. I don’t want a woman who expressed her opinion
about the Sevan mayor to be dragged to the police station. I don’t
want guys or groups `bringing votes during elections’ to be in the
government’s team, because those `guys’ or groups will cost the state
and the very government dearly in the next 5 years. I don’t want Serzh
Sargsyan’s name to be written in lower case, because firstly, I don’t
see any feat in it – it is an absolutely safe thing to do these days –
secondly neither the number of people leaving the country, nor the
corruption will be reduced by that. I don’t want Mher of Tokhmakh or
Schmeiss to be MPs, taking the places of more literate and clever
people. I don’t want Surik Khachatryan to be a governor, because our
towns and villages are emptying because of those very people. I don’t
want supporters of one candidate to think of the supporters of the
other candidate as enemies, provocateurs, sellouts etc. I don’t want
`proscription’ lists of those who weren’t with `the people’ and didn’t
struggle against the `regime’ to be drawn up in squares. I don’t want
people who cry louder than others at rallies to be in the `shadow’
Cabinet and then in case of the opposition’s victory, in the `lucid’
Cabinet – we experienced that partially after the 1988 Movement. I
want Tigran Arakelyan to be released from prison. In the end, I would
like it very much, if all our politicians were at least a bit like
Mrs. Anahit Bakhshyan. My compatriots who have reached the heights of
politicized and abstract thinking will respond to all that:
`Everything will be fine when the people topple the regime.’ It is
quite possible. It would be great, if after that face-off – I hope,
peaceful – prosperous and happy life started in Armenia. However, I
don’t think that it will be perfectly happy, so happy that one will
not have to think of specific people and specific phenomena again.
ARAM ABRAHAMYAN